Updated On: 07 October, 2021 12:47 PM IST | Mumbai | Upala KBR
Vikram Bhatt opens up on finding love in art curator Shwetambari Soni and why he kept their marriage under wraps for a year

Vikram Bhatt and Shwetambari Soni
Some things are sacred, nurtured away from the prying eyes, and meant to be shared with the world only when the time is right. Vikram Bhatt would agree. On Wednesday, the filmmaker posted a loving birthday message for art curator Shwetambari Soni, thus going public with their year-long marriage. The two, who met in 2016 through a mutual friend, tied the knot in September last year. “It was a private ceremony at my home, with her three sisters and my family in attendance. Even my friends couldn’t come. We had initially thought of having a [grand] wedding, but the pandemic [played spoilsport],” begins the director.
His love for art made Bhatt cross paths with Soni — the two were to work on an exhibition together. While the exhibition didn’t work out, the love story did. “What I love about Shweta is that she is intelligent, and more frank than me. She doesn’t belong to the world of films, so I love coming home to someone who has been in a completely different world. I bounce my ideas off her as Shweta is astute with stories. She is honest with her feedback, especially if the story is crap,” he laughs.